Nesi Altaras
Nesi is an Istanbuli Jew and an editor of Avlaremoz, a Jewish news platform in Turkish. He recently completed a Master's in Political Science at McGill University, with a special interest in the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. In his free time, he enjoys learning languages and listening to people’s stories.
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2021 saw rising hostility against queer identities in Turkey, bringing the topic to the fore in discussions about its fraught language politics. By uncovering a largely undocumented Ladino vocabulary, Altaras sheds light on historical gender politics in Sephardic Turkey, and offers a means of building toward a Ladino without lexical limits.